Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!pyramid!tolerant!kennedy
From: kennedy@tolerant.UUCP (Bill Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Rerouting of explicit paths
Message-ID: <1387@tolerant.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 88 16:36:54 GMT
References: <327@vsi1.UUCP> <475@minya.UUCP>
Reply-To: kennedy@tolerant.UUCP (Bill Kennedy)
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Organization: Tolerant Systems Inc., San Jose
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This morning I got another log for the fire. I had sent a piece of mail
to a legitimate machine name within a site name and my neighbor site
decided it should go a better way.  Now the mailer at bellcore (who
should have nothing to do with it) is griping at me because it can not
reach site foo and it's going to just die in four more days... So I have
gotten to pay LD four times and get to again because the message is going
to just wither away at bellcore.

Misrouting mail costs time, stomach acid, and resources all along the way.
My stuff is occupying disk space at a site who is innocent of everything.
Had my neighbor sent it the way I addressed it it would have been delivered
to its destination by now.  Brian Kantor is right, I suppose it's OK to
stop and say "whoah! I'm direct to that site" and short circuit it to go
direct, maybe also to pick through 20+ hops or something...  BTW the path
I used works A-OK if you can keep it away from the East Coast :-(

These opinions are my own, Tolerant is nice enough to let me use their gear.
Bill Kennedy {rutgers,cbosgd,ihnp4!petro}!ssbn!bill or bill@ssbn.WLK.COM